Is there anything besides HIV that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome?

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For all practical purposes the answer is no, but there are other means of depleting the cd4 count, some of which are of unknown source.

They can produce a similar result as hiv, and we can do this as well with some of the drugs used to treat a variety of illnesses in medical practice. But when we talk about immunodeficiency syndrome we are almost always talking about HIV disease.

In brief:
No

For all practical purposes the answer is no, but there are other means of depleting the cd4 count, some of which are of unknown source.

They can produce a similar result as hiv, and we can do this as well with some of the drugs used to treat a variety of illnesses in medical practice. But when we talk about immunodeficiency syndrome we are almost always talking about HIV disease.
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